pour rien au monde
\puʁ ʁjɛ̃.n‿o mɔ̃d\
The verdict
“pour rien au monde” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as an adverb - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - En aucune manière, en aucune façon.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pour rien au monde |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \puʁ ʁjɛ̃.n‿o mɔ̃d\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “pour rien au monde” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for pour rien au monde is 18 letters long, classified as an adverb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \puʁ ʁjɛ̃.n‿o mɔ̃d\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "En aucune manière, en aucune façon.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for pour rien au monde, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is pour rien au monde, spelled P-O-U-R- -R-I-E-N- -A-U- -M-O-N-D-E.
Definition
- 1En aucune manière, en aucune façon.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “pour rien au monde”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is P-O-U-R- -R-I-E-N- -A-U- -M-O-N-D-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.